This post isn’t about any dramatic or sweeping changes going on around here, I just felt I would keep people in the loop in case you’ve noticed some stuff going on in the past week or two.
First of all, you will probably notice that at this point in time the design of the site has been changed. This is due to the fact that along with the recent upgrade on the server to WordPress2.5, I have finally done away with K2. K2′s developers are “hard at work” (using their words – not that I don’t believe they are) to publish a release that fully supports WP2.5, but honestly I don’t much care anymore. K2 was a huge boon when the core WordPress installation didn’t do a lot of the cool functionality that K2 could provide, but nowadays the added bonuses just aren’t worth the headaches to me whenever the need to upgrade WordPress comes about. The past two upgrades have gotten completely messed up thanks to K2, meaning I couldn’t use the theme without some form of a “patch”; the upgrade to 2.5 rendered the entire admin section useless without either performing a database removal of the reference to K2 or, thanks to one intelligent soul who figured this out and shared the solution with others, adding some code to the admin login script so that you could actually log in to manage the site. Sorry K2, it was fun while it lasted but I’m moving on. It’s true that other themes may themselves have unforeseen compatibility issues with future upgrades, but they typically don’t hook into the core functionality of WordPress nearly as much as K2 did so future speed bumps will be much easier to overcome.
You also may have noticed a bit of downtime if you were checking in on things while the server got rebuilt by Troll. So if you did happen to try and check in, and the site wasn’t here… sorry. Things seem to be going smooth now that everything is back up and reinstalled though.
Also, you may have noticed I’m trying to post more often again. A lot of stuff has been going down lately which kept it difficult to keep up here for a while, but I’m getting it back on track; for better or worse I suppose, depending on your point of view.
That’s it for now. I’ll have some information regarding a little article I’m writing for a trade publication in a little bit, but until I get things finalized a bit more (eg: I’m closer towards completing the article) I’m going to keep it more under wraps. As it is, I won’t be able to publish the contents until it would be printed anyway so it could be some time before too much more information becomes available on it anyway. I’ll keep you in the loop.